Uber’s Fatal Self-Driving Car Crash Saga Ends With the Operator Avoiding Prison
After five years of purgatory, Rafaela Vasquez, the operator of a self-driving Uber that killed a pedestrian in 2018, pleaded guilty to endangerment.
ServiceNow expands platform with additional generative AI capabilities to ease enterprise productivity
By infusing generative AI features, ServiceNow aims to help customers drive business value from a single platform.Read More
Researchers develop low-cost sensor to enhance robots’ sense of touch
Researchers have developed an L3 F-TOUCH sensor to enhance tactile capabilities in robots, allowing it to ‘feel’ objects and adjust its grip accordingly.
Reinforcement learning allows underwater robots to locate and track objects underwater
A research team has shown for the first time that reinforcement learning—i.e., a neural network that learns the best action to perform at each moment based on a series of rewards—allows autonomous vehicles and underwater robots to locate and carefully track marine objects and animals.
Intel turns surprise Q2 profit with $12.9B in revenue as AI drives growth
Intel reported that its Q2 revenues and profits were above expectations, as the chip giant saw significant growth in AI-related chip sales.Read More
The NSA Is Lobbying Congress to Save a Phone Surveillance ‘Loophole’
The National Security Agency has urged top lawmakers to resist demands that it obtain warrants for sensitive data sold by data brokers.
A simpler method for learning to control a robot
A new machine-learning technique can efficiently learn to control a robot, leading to better performance with fewer data.
Open-source platform makes it easier to create 3D scenes from images
Just a few years ago, Berkeley engineers showed us how they could easily turn images into a 3D navigable scene using a technology called Neural Radiance Fields, or NeRF. Now, another team of Berkeley researchers has created a development framework to help speed up NeRF projects and make this technology more accessible to others.
ServiceNow partners with Nvidia and Accenture on ‘AI Lighthouse’ for rapid enterprise AI adoption
The program aims to help customers build and deploy custom generative AI large language models (LLMs) and generative AI applications.Read More
Our Top Song of the Summer Picks
If music is a sport, this is the most competitive season of the year. Here are WIRED’s picks for the best tracks out right now. Who deserves the top spot?